I hates computers

[xenith]

I was trying to find a working keyboard this morning when I discovered three things about my computer:

1. every time I fiddled with or changed the cable that was in the keyboard socket, the computer would reboot

2. the modem and case under it were live (as in, I got a major shock)

3. when I hit power button, the lights come on but that's all (no beeps, nothing on the screen)

These are all things that can be considered unusual computer behaviour, even by my computer's standards.

So, I pulled out the hard drives and shoved them into the newer (4 year old) computer that I was supposed to be setting up as a replacement computer. And spent the next 6 hours getting the OS and hardware talking to each other. Until I gave up. And I got hit on the head by a speaker.

I still have no sound and no USB thingy, and a slightly flickering screen.

But I do have 1024 x 768 resolution, and brighter colours, and more RAM and a younger computer that is hopefully more stable.

I also still have a spacebar that doesn't work most of the time.

Comments

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

Only if it's plugged in.

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

Poor unloved computer. 8 years of hard work and what does it get, thrown out!

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

This would be why you went MIA :) - hope your computer now behaves. Or your other computer now ebhaves. Anyhow, that you have a working and polite machine.

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

I am enjoying this new larger resolution. There's a whole new world out there! I shall be able to put off buying a new monitor for a bit longer too.

[webfarmer.livejournal.com]

FWIW. I'm very happy with my latest Ubuntu install on the newer Toshiba laptop. Looks like I'm not alone with the thumbs up effect. Only major problem I've had with it so far is that it's not communicating well with my microphone port so I can't use it for Skype or Audacity recordings.

Dvorak Likes Linux - PC Magazine
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2342703,00.asp

"Every so often I take a stab at Linux, to see exactly what I like and do not like about the OS. Many of its problems, for me, stem from its inability to run on my overloaded hardware, or the occasional driver that makes the OS impossible to use without hand-tweaking something or other. That said, I seriously like the Ubuntu 8.10 implementation and will now install it permanently on my latest machines. It's a winner."

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what version I have. I had it installed on the other (original to this computer) hard drive but had the problem of transferring stuff between computers so didn't get it set up.